Minecraft is one of the most enduringly popular games on Earth, with over 212 million active monthly players. The beloved video game even has a recent film adaptation. This popularity stems largely ...

Winners & losers: For the first time in nearly two decades, Mojang has announced a significant change in Minecraft's hardware requirements, a rare move for one of the biggest gaming products in ...

Verity mod is now available for download on Minecraft Java and Bedrock Editions. The only catch is that it is not the official mod since the mod simply does not exist. It was showcased in a YouTube ...

The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

Mojang is currently working on the next major Minecraft content update, Chaos Cubed, and that means public testing is ongoing via the snapshot system. The latest update to the Minecraft Java Edition ...

Minecraft Java Edition is finally getting a native Friends List and peer-to-peer multiplayer, letting players join each other’s worlds without setting up a server, Realms, or relying on third-party ...

SYDNEY, April 22 (Reuters) - Australia's internet regulator on Wednesday asked online gaming platforms including Roblox (RBLX.N), opens new tab and Microsoft's (MSFT.O), opens new tab Minecraft to ...

The Uncensored Library, a digital project that chronicles attacks on journalistic liberty, is adding a U.S. wing alongside those dedicated to Russia, Saudi Arabia and others. By Will Bahr I’m standing ...

After more than 16 years, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally moving away from the aging OpenGL graphics system and upgrading to Vulkan, a modern multi-threaded rendering API. The change, announced by ...

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